I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration

“There was an order from the master to stop by the office after dressing up.”

“Yes…?”

“Hurry up.”

She had to wash her face, brush her hair, and put on a long dress by the woman without knowing why. And when she stood in front of the mirror to check her makeup, she realized that things were going pretty strangely.

‘Who, who are you?’

Her appearance in the mirror was so unfamiliar. Red prayer was a Westerner with brown hair, light brown eyes, fair skin and a glamorous body. It’s pretty, but looks a bit angular. It would be a good impression to take with you when you go to get a refund. And in the meantime, someone’s memory slowly began to flood into her head. It was the memory of Edith Rigelhoff, a 22-year-old aristocratic lady who had a week to get married. It was strange that the memories of a ‘noble’ girl had formed in the minds of people living in the 21st century, but it was even more strange that the name was not unfamiliar to them.

‘Edit… Edith Rigelhoff. Where have you heard of it, who is it? Oh wait! no way…?’

She remembered. That was the name of the wicked woman in the romance novel that she read until the end the other day.

It was a romantic edition titled <I refuse to obsess>, aiming to develop cider.

‘Nonsense! I possessed the villain of Romance?’

It seemed like her mind was going crazy. She was not the hero, she was the villain! No, she possessed the body before that!

“Please wait in the room for a while. I will come after receiving permission from the owner to visit again.”

Her maid, Sophia, spoke curtly and left without hearing my reply. Trying to calm her terribly pounding heart, she quickly recalled the story of the novel. Because she had to come to her senses quickly in this gap.

‘The main character was Lize Sinclair, right? The male lead was Cliff Ludwig.’

She was taken aback, but fortunately her head was back on track. It was a novel that she enjoyed reading, so it was fortunate that she had a lot of memories left. Lize Sinclair, the main character of the novel, was a bright, innocent and beautiful girl like the goddess of spring. However, handicaps existed for all protagonists. She was the illegitimate daughter of the Earl of Sinclair, who had tampered with his maid.

The Count thought that he would be able to use the beautiful and clever Lize someday and put her on the family register, but Sinclair and the people bullied Lize. While the persecution of her family intensified, she stayed for a while at the Sinclair family, and she fell in love with the Duke and Duchess of Ludwig, and she moved to the Ludwig family to live.

‘And that’s where she meets Cliff, the male lead, and Killian, her sub-male lead.’

Cliff and Killian were the two sons of a ducal family, and brothers, who fell in love with the same woman at the same time, they fiercely tried to get Lize without concessions. Giving what Lize wanted, and dealing with what threatened Lize without Lize’s knowledge… They were the subjects of the ‘obsession’ that they referred to in the title. However, like all heroines who were not cunning and have a bright nature, she didn’t notice at all that the love between the two men went beyond ‘a little’, and she cleverly solved the case that befell her. In the end, she married Cliff, the eldest son of the duchy, and became the duchess… It’s a common subject, but it was such an interesting story. And there, Edith Riegelhoff was one of Lize’s many ‘enemies’.

‘Is she in volume 3? She was a woman who married the sub male lead of convenience in volume 4, right? So, her wedding to the sub-boyfriend is a week away?’

The second son, Killian, who loved Lise, was the one that was forced to marry for the benefit of the family. The Rigelhoffs were villains who, together with the Ludwig family, pretended to be Emperors and secretly joined forces with the opposition faction to attack the Ludwig family. However, unlike Killian, who hated Edith, the problem was that she fell in love with Killian at first sight.

‘She was blinded by her jealousy and did everything possible to kill Lize!’

In addition, while acting as a spy for Count Rigelhoff, she conspires with her own maid Sophia to steal internal documents and secrets from the Ludwig family.

‘You put the dead flags too hard…’

Of course, that evil deed was discovered by Lize, and in the end, the people of Count Rigelhof fell down together. In the hands of her husband, Killian… It was a truly insignificant villain.

She remembered that there were some bad comments, saying that it was a ‘female fatale’ character made out of jealousy for a man. Anyway, apart from the confrontation, she couldn’t understand Edith the whole time she was reading it.

‘Pretty face, good body, healthy, good family, lots of money… What’s wrong with clinging to her husband? If it were me, I would give up my husband and live happily.’

She knew very well that people in love often make irrational choices, but it took too long for her to understand that because she didn’t have enough money. Her wish was to live without worrying about money or about health. It was a family that was not rich since she was young, and she even got leukemia from such a family.

Her brother’s bone marrow was transplanted and even cured, but her body suffered from harsh drugs and chemotherapy could not be healthy. In addition, her older brother, who had been working day jobs without even finishing high school, fell into gambling and extorted her money under the pretext of a bone marrow transplant, and her parents had no strength or will to stop him. So, the feeling of love was a luxury to her.

According to Maslow’s 5-level need theory, she was in a very insecure position, barely satisfying her physiological needs. Even so, the reason she had a boyfriend was because she still needed a place to lean on. She wanted someone to protect her. Perhaps… she didn’t know if she wanted someone like the male lead in the romantic drama to save her. Of course, that didn’t happen.

Anyway, because of that, she was envious of Edith rather than Lize, and she was frustrated by her choice. How about throwing that husband’s love to another woman? If only she had given up her husband’s love, she would have been able to live a comfortable life.

‘If you are in a harmonious family with a lot of money and good health, you should be grateful.’

Edith did not know how happy it was to not worry about money or to be healthy. Even if it was a position where she wasn’t noticed by others, why did she covet something else?

‘You’d rather have me edit it. I’m really confident I’ll do well.’

She never thought that God would really give her the role of Edith, but she did think that way. The proverb that words become seeds didn’t come out of nowhere… for a moment! Come to think of it, her wish came true…?

‘So this is it, right? Possession of a villain character in a romance novel!’

If it was someone who didn’t know anything, it would have been overwhelming, but it was a dream situation for her, who had mastered all the clichés of Romance. Her bewildered heart gradually turned to joy.

‘Yes, this should be the price of an unfair death! Hurray!’

The memories of Edith Riegelhoff hadn’t fully popped into her head yet, but they were slowly forming, so it was far better than starting out without knowing anything. Tonight, it seemed that a dinner was set up for the last time before the wedding with the families of both families. It seemed that God was very sorry for her, since she had ‘preservation of original character memory’, which was not provided in most Romance stories.

Just then, Sophia returned.

“Miss. The master has allowed a visit.”

“Huh. I’ll go.”

She took a deep breath and headed for Count Rigelhoff’s office as Edith’s memory told her.

“Good morning, Father.”

It felt like calling someone she didn’t know completely as her father, but what’s difficult about that was that he’s an idiot with a lot of money. Even if you asked her to act cute, she could do it as much as she wanted. However, Count Rigelhoff’s reaction was quite different from what she expected.

“Isn’t it too late for morning?”

His gaze, looking up and down as if trying to find fault, was like the eyes of Manager Park at work. And only then did Edith’s situation within the Rigelhoff family begin to be entered into her mind.

‘Uh? Uh, huh… what’s this!’

She didn’t remember all of the full text of <I Reject Obsession>, but Edith was definitely a snobby and arrogant villainess because she grew up loved and spoiled. However, according to the memory that just came into her head, it was just an ‘image for external use’.

Edith Rigelhoff was nothing more than a puppet of Count Rigelhoff. He showed off his family’s wealth by dressing Edith in fancy dresses and wearing expensive jewelry, and showed off the family’s confidence with her arrogant attitude. Edith’s beauty, her voluptuous body, and gorgeous style were all billboards for the Rigelhof family. In reality, she was a physically and emotionally abused daughter who desperately wanted to be loved by her parents and brother.

‘This is a scam! How could this be!’

As she was struggling in shock, Count Rigelhoff spoke in a sharp tone.

“You must not make any mistakes today. Because the Ludwig guys are going to fret because they can’t catch the pod.”

“…Yes, Father.”

“I will negotiate to let in three of our family maids as your maids. You have to say outright that you won’t entrust your body to anyone other than our family’s maid. It would be nice to scratch their egos if they couldn’t accept that much. Can you do well?”

She didn’t know what the hell it was, but she had to pretend she knew it. Count Rigelhoff, who had been writing tonight’s scenario for a long time, not paying attention to her answer, then started cursing Duke Ludwig. Only then did Count Rigelhoff begin to think of the reason why he was so anxious about not being able to destroy the Ludwig family.

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